Startups. Fun work environment, fast paced work speed, just-get-it-done attitude and close-knit colleagues. While all of this may sound fun, it’s not something that can last forever. The company must grow, the products that they are working on need to reach stability, and the just-get-it-done attitude changes to a lets-get-it-done-right attitude. As your company continues
Startups. Fun work environment, fast paced work speed, just-get-it-done attitude and close-knit colleagues. While all of this may sound fun, it’s not something that can last forever. The company must grow, the products that they are working on need to reach stability, and the just-get-it-done attitude changes to a lets-get-it-done-right attitude. As your company continues
The second Engineering Nexus revolved around the challenges of adopting and absorbing Agile into an organization, especially one with an established culture, why we seem to fail at it, and how to get better – all from an architectural, process and delivery standpoint. Following are the complete video documentations of the individual speaker sessions of
In this Innovation Session, Ishan Madhusanka, Theekshana Dilshan, Dilini Mampitiya, Nethmi Hettiarachchi and Shashika Gunasena took us on a trip to the high seas. The topic – “From Plank to Ship as you Sail Along”. Is it possible to build a ship, from a plank while you sail? Well no, that borders on the impossible,
Quality – the constant battle to deliver products fast, yet uphold a high level of quality. Engineers have been engaged in this battle since the beginning, and the way they’d reconciled the dilemma was to introduce development process improvements. But this meant there was lesser focus on the testing standard itself. To counter this limitation,
In this Innovation Session, Dilhan Manaduwa, Director – QE & Process at Sysco Labs speaks on developing and maintaining an agile mindset and culture in his presentation, “Start Being Agile”. “Change is the only constant” is a Universal phrase which is ever so relevant event to present day, and due to this reason Being Agile
Dilhan Manawadu, Director – Quality Engineering and Process at CAKE LABS, speaks on the importance of Agile Testing at the Software Quality Engineering Awareness Program organized by SLASSCOM. The session was mainly targeted towards University lecturers, to create awareness on the importance of Quality Engineering in University curriculum’s.
“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships” – Michael Jordon In this Innovation Session, Kanchana Silva of the CAKE Guest Manager team speaks about team relationship building. First, let’s make a clear distinction between a team and a group. A group is a collection of individuals with a common interest, and a team is a
In this Innovation Session Rajinda Rathnapala of the Monetization team spoke about Agile, and its use in a real life context. Agile has been widely touted as a software development approach that is easy to implement, but is that really the case? The Agile process is actually more difficult than what you are lead to
In this Innovation Session by Hasitha Liyanage (Director, Technology & Architecture at CAKE LABS), we take a look at some of the reasons that Software projects fail.
A common practice among teams in IT companies adopting the latest trends, Agile can be scaled to enterprise level once applied properly. In this Innovation Session, Maduri Senadheera from the Project Management team talks about the Agile project management mindset, the need for scaling and the benefits of a Scaled Agile Framework for better aligning business
People in large teams are less engaged, and individual performance drops. The team as a whole may complete more work, but individuals are less personally productive, so the team essentially gets more done at a lower rate. Larger teams also lead to more friction, partly because communication suffers. Leapset now introduces the concept of a small team at the Sri Lankan development centre. Leapset has
Getting Predictable – The Predictable Delivery in Mobile App Development This week’s Innovation Session covered, ‘Predictable Delivery in Mobile App Development’ and was hosted by our Director of Engineering and Architecture at Leapset, Anjana Somathilake. He stressed the importance of a high-quality product and the frustrations of issues like app crashes which reduce product effectiveness.
